Mark, Well, the good news is, I got ssh-host-config to work! The bad news is, I don't know what to do next. I am looking at readme files and what not, but if you know where the instructions are on how to setup public key authentication on an sftp server, please feel free to point me in the right direction. The server that will be sending its backup data to the sftp server wants the following info (in a web form): Server Name: Server Port: Server Path: User Name: Key: Key Password: (optional) Do I have to be logged in as the Username I generate the key for and then run the shell and type ssh-user-config or? Key is a text box, I assume after I figure out which key file it is using, I willopen it and copy the contents into this web form, no? Thanks for all your help guys, I feel like I am really close. Dave M
----- Original Message ---- Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2009 11:10:48 AM Subject: Re: sftp on a Windows 2003 server On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 12:27 PM, Dave M wrote: > *** Warning: The permissions on the directory /var are not correct. > *** Warning: They must match the regexp d..x..x..[xt] > *** ERROR: Problem with /var directory. Exiting. > > t...@s-exsyslog01 ~ > $ ls -l /var That shows the permissions on the files *inside* of /var, not /var itself. Add the -d option to ls (ls -ld /var) to see the permissions on /var itself. But chances are it's like /var/cache, /var/lib, /var/run, and /var/tmp in your output, which have no "other" access at all, when they need at least execute. /var/empty, which you mentioned, already has the right permissions, as does /var/log. Very odd. -- Mark J. Reed <markjr...@gmail.com> -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
